http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/salim/ en-us Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:50:44 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/833863/posts Canada bankrolled man's aid agency during that time U.S. authorities have tied a Canadian aid worker to the al-Qaeda terrorist network as far back as 1988, almost a decade before the Canadian government cut off funding to his Ottawa-based Muslim charity. Evidence unsealed by a U.S. judge in Chicago shows Ahmed Said Khadr had dealings with senior al-Qaeda leaders while being financed by the Canadian International Development Agency. Although CIDA stopped giving aid money to Mr. Khadr in 1997 after he was arrested for allegedly bombing an embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, the documents allege he was working with al-Qaeda long... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/833863/posts#comment Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:50:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2441241/posts President Obama finally listened to the outcry of New York, and is considering moving the trial of 9/11 terrorist Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other al Qaeda members out of the city, perhaps to Guantanamo Bay. Finally, some wisdom. It would be better there. It's military. They're not going to mess around. These dangerous terrorists will not be allowed to spread their hate, or hurt anyone else. Nobody knows better than me. I was a federal prison guard at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. In 2000, I was with a prisoner, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, taking him back to his cell.... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2441241/posts#comment Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:53:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386354/posts Ten months before Al Qaeda in 2001 struck a deathblow in the heart lower Manhattan, one of the terrorist group's founding members plunged a sharpened comb through Pepe's left eye and into his brain, blinding the 42-year-old prison guard and causing severe brain injuries that plague him to this day. Pepe told FoxNews.com he worries that sending Mohammed and four of his alleged fellow 9/11 conspirators to New York could compromise the safety of the guards at the MCC prison. Keeping the prisoners in one location, he said, was especially dangerous. Teaming up against Pepe, they beat and blinded him,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386354/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:57:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240259/posts Note: Photo included. Trio not guilty of helping 7/7 London bombers Jury clears men of conspiring with four bombers over London 2005 explosions that killed 52 Rachel Williams guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 28 April 2009 17.01 BST Three British Muslims were today cleared of helping the 7 July bombers choose their targets by carrying out a reconnaissance mission in London seven months before the attacks that killed 52 people and injured almost 1,000. A jury at Kingston crown court unanimously found Waheed Ali, 25, Sadeer Saleem, 28, and Mohammed Shakil, 32, all from Beeston, Leeds, not guilty of conspiring with the four... GUARDIAN.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240259/posts#comment Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:22:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156028/posts (AP) Mexico City - Salim Boughader Mucharrafille was arrested in 2002 and convicted on organized-crime and immigrant-smuggling charges. Boughader, a Mexican of Lebanese descent, ran a cafe in the city of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, California. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156028/posts#comment Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:41:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576272/posts Paul Pillar Speaks, Again The latest CIA attack on the Bush administration is nothing new. by Stephen F. Hayes 02/10/2006 4:15:00 PM IN A BREATHLESS front-page, above-the-fold article in today's Washington Post, Walter Pincus reports that a former senior CIA official named Paul Pillar accuses the Bush administration of "misusing" intelligence to take the country to war in Iraq. According to the Post account, Pillar uses a forthcoming article in Foreign Affairs to claim that the Bush administration "politicized" the intelligence on Iraq. Bush administration policymakers did this subtly, Pillar says, by repeatedly asking the CIA questions about Iraq, its... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576272/posts#comment Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:16:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472411/posts AHMED HIKMAT SHAKIR IS A shadowy figure who provided logistical assistance to one, maybe two, of the 9/11 hijackers. Years before, he had received a phone call from the Jersey City, New Jersey, safehouse of the plotters who would soon, in February 1993, park a truck bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center. The safehouse was the apartment of Musab Yasin, brother of Abdul Rahman Yasin, who scorched his own leg while mixing the chemicals for the 1993 bomb.When Shakir was arrested shortly after the 9/11 attacks, his "pocket litter," in the parlance of the investigators, included contact... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472411/posts#comment Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:49:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1423556/posts There's a lot I don't understand about the current hysteria over our prison facility at Guantanamo Bay. At the top of the list is why no one has mentioned Louis Pepe or Mamdouh Mahmud Salim. Salim, a reputed top lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden, was being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a high security federal jail in lower Manhattan. Pepe was a guard there. On November 1, 2000, Salim plunged a sharpened comb into Pepe's left eye and three inches into his brain. Salim and a compatriot also beat Pepe savagely, in their effort to get the guard's keys... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1423556/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:49:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1229608/posts .1999 ABC News Report : The Osama - Hussein Connection http://www.radioamerica.org/audio/MR_ABC-Osama-Hussein-connections.mp3Here is a transcript of the linked MP3 file. -- Sheila MacVicar, ABC News, January 14, 1999 '". . . [Mamdouh Mahmud] Salim, alleged to be a key military advisor and believed to be privy to bin Laden's most secret projects, is also apprehended. The US government alleges that he was under secret orders to procure enriched uranium for the purpose of developing nuclear weapons. These are allegations bin Laden does not now deny. "It would be a sin for Muslims not to try to possess the weapons that would... Radio America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1229608/posts#comment Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:01:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1136966/posts Izzadine Salim ,head of the Iraqi Provisional Governing Council was among 10 Iraqis murdered this morning in a car bombing. 6 other Iraqia were seriously wounded,and 2 US soldiers were slightly wounded. The bombing occurred as the 5 vehicle convoy in which the victims were riding slowed for a US checkpoint near the Governing Council buildings. A red Volkswagen sped up,alongside Salim's vehicle,and detonated with enormous force. Salim is the 2nd Council member to be murdered.Akila Hashimi was gunned down on September 20,2003,and perished 5 days later. The attack,per the wire services,does not bode well for the scheduled June 20th... Associated Press,Reuters,Agence France Presse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1136966/posts#comment Mon, 17 May 2004 12:01:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1136882/posts <p>BAGHDAD, May 17 (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded on Monday near a U.S. base in western Baghdad and there were several casualties, witnesses at the scene said.</p> <p>Cars were on fire and a large column of thick black smoke rose into the sky. U.S. troops blocked off the area.</p> Israeli News Site http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1136882/posts#comment Mon, 17 May 2004 06:21:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1129174/posts <p>May 4, 2004 -- A prison guard who suffered brain damage when he was stabbed in the eye by an alleged al Qaeda terrorist screamed, "I am dead" yesterday as he was tossed out of court by a judge who sentenced his attacker to 32 years in prison. After Judge Deborah Batts ordered marshals to escort wheelchair-bound Louis Pepe from the courtroom, dozens of his fellow federal correction officers angrily marched out in protest.</p> New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1129174/posts#comment Tue, 4 May 2004 08:03:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1129183/posts <p>May 4, 2004 -- OFFICER Louis Pepe is, in many ways, as close to being dead as you can be without lying in a casket. His father, Franklin Pepe, puts it more succinctly: "What they did to him is worse than death."</p> New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1129183/posts#comment Tue, 4 May 2004 08:56:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1128972/posts NEW YORK (Reuters) - An accused key operative of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) was sentenced on Monday to 32 years in jail for stabbing a prison guard in the eye while awaiting trial for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa. In an emotionally charged sentencing hearing, the defendant Mamdouh Mahmud Salim was confronted by his mutilated victim, who was left permanently brain damaged and partially paralyzed and blinded in the attack. "How about me? Look at me. Every day it hurts," yelled the guard, Louis Pepe, who pointed at Salim from his wheelchair. "You, you... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1128972/posts#comment Mon, 3 May 2004 22:52:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/792187/posts Today the US Treasury designated three entities as financiers of terrorism under Executive Order 13224 and will ask the United Nations to add these names to the list of those whose assets must be blocked by all member nations under UNSCR 1390. The financial accounts of the principal entity, Benevolence International Foundation, were blocked pending investigation in December 2001. The three closely linked but separately incorporated entities designated today are Benevolence International Foundation, Benevolence International Fund (Canada), Bosanska Idealna Futura (Bosnia), and their branch offices. “UN designation of these financiers of terror will cut off their access to the global... US Treasury http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/792187/posts#comment Wed, 20 Nov 2002 04:45:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1021304/posts <p>MEXICO CITY (AP) - A former Mexican consul to Lebanon has been arrested on charges of helping a smuggling ring move Arab migrants into the United States from Mexico, federal agents said Thursday. Imelda Ortiz, detained late Wednesday in Mexico City, is the fourth alleged member of the ring captured in three days.</p> AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1021304/posts#comment Fri, 14 Nov 2003 01:34:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1022083/posts Case ClosedFrom the November 24, 2003 issue: The U.S. government's secret memo detailing cooperation between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.by Stephen F. Hayes 11/24/2003, Volume 009, Issue 11     Email a Friend   Respond to this article OSAMA BIN LADEN and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, logistical support for terrorist attacks, al Qaeda training camps and safe haven in Iraq, and Iraqi financial support for al Qaeda--perhaps even for Mohamed Atta--according to a top secret U.S. government memorandum obtained by... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1022083/posts#comment Sat, 15 Nov 2003 01:15:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1007969/posts IN A LITTLE-NOTICED DECISION in a New York courtroom on September 25, 2003, a man described as Osama bin Laden's "best friend" got some good news. U.S. District Court Judge Deborah Batts ruled that Mahmdouh Mahmud Salim could not be sentenced to life in prison. Salim--who was present at the founding of al Qaeda in 1989 and who was for years one of bin Laden's most trusted confidants--had been captured in Germany in 1998 and extradited to the United States for prosecution related to his role in the grand conspiracy that resulted in the 1998 bombings at U.S. embassies in... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1007969/posts#comment Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:00:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/966385/posts <p>CHICAGO (AP) — A Muslim charity leader linked by prosecutors to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network was sentenced yesterday to more than 11 years in federal prison for defrauding donors.</p> <p>Enaam Arnaout, 41, a Syrian-born U.S. citizen who said he has met bin Laden but opposes terrorism, was calm as the sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge Suzanne B. Conlon.</p> Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/966385/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2003 05:26:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/766451/posts Arafat's Advisor Arrested for Transferring Money from Iraq to Families of Palestinian Suicide Terrorists IDF Spokesperson 9 October 2002 The Israel Security Agency, working together with IDF forces, recently detained for questioning Rakahd Salim, the head of the Front for National Liberation in the West Bank, who was directly responsible for the transfer of Iraqi aid funds to the families of suicide bombers and Palestinian terrorists. Rakahd Salim, the General Secretary of the Front for National Liberation in the West Bank, was arrested on October 2, 2002 after documents seized by the IDF during operation "Defensive Shield" indicated that he... IMRA/IDF http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/766451/posts#comment Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:59:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/746197/posts A top Osama Bin Laden lieutenant who stabbed a Manhattan prison guard in the eye said yesterday that his hand was covered in blood after the attack but denied it was an act of terror. "My hand was all bloody," Mamdouh Mahmud Salim said as he gave a judge a chilling blow-by-blow account of the Nov. 1, 2000, assault on Louis Pepe at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. "This is the first time in my life that the blood of another person would come on my hand." Prosecutors are trying to prove the stabbing with a sharpened comb was a terrorist... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/746197/posts#comment Sat, 7 Sep 2002 09:25:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/617587/posts The lawyer of an alleged top al-Qaida chief says his clients trial should be moved because so many New Yorkers say they were affected by the September 11th terrorist attacks, after his client protested the pain of his manacled wrists in court. U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts directed lawyers to submit written arguments about where the prison-stabbing trial should be held and other issues even as she set an April 10th trial date for Mamdouh Mahmud Salim (Mom-Doo-Mach-Mood-Sah-leem). Salim faces trial in the stabbing of a prison guard in the face while awaiting trial on an attempt to bomb two ... News Radio 88 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/617587/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:40:06 GMT